Data Management Jobs in Scotland

Data Management
UK > Scotland

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Scotland with a requirement for Data Management skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Data Management over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 164 159 132
Rank change year-on-year -5 -27 -16
Permanent jobs citing Data Management 126 62 117
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 1.88% 1.31% 2.05%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.02% 1.39% 2.25%
Number of salaries quoted 54 38 55
10th Percentile £42,500 £37,125 £33,300
25th Percentile £55,000 £40,625 £38,635
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £39,659
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% +38.68% -27.89%
75th Percentile £67,500 £62,500 £51,000
90th Percentile £73,250 £62,833 £62,833
UK median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £61,000
% change year-on-year -7.69% +6.56% +6.09%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Scotland

Data Management is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in Scotland with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 6,235 4,465 5,197
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 92.87% 94.26% 91.05%
Number of salaries quoted 2,418 2,242 2,777
10th Percentile £28,750 £32,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,125 £42,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £57,905 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.33% +10.30% +5.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £75,000 £66,250
90th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £81,250
UK median annual salary £55,000 £62,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -11.29% +3.33% +9.09%

Data Management
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

Job postings citing Data Management as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Scotland.

Job vacancy trend for Data Management in Scotland

Data Management
Salary Trend in Scotland

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Data Management in Scotland.

Salary trend for Data Management in Scotland

Data Management
Salary Histogram in Scotland

Salary distribution for jobs citing Data Management in Scotland over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Data Management in Scotland

Data Management
Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Data Management within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 27 April 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Glasgow -55 63 £62,500 +56.25% 8
Aberdeen +16 27 £60,000 - 7
Edinburgh +22 23 £60,249 +5.21% 11
Stirling - 4 - -
Renfrewshire - 1 £35,000 -
Data Management
UK

Data Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 8 (6.35%) Confluence
1 8 (6.35%) SharePoint
2 1 (0.79%) Apache Spark
2 1 (0.79%) SAS
Applications
1 21 (16.67%) Microsoft Excel
2 12 (9.52%) Sketch
3 1 (0.79%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.79%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 15 (11.90%) Power Platform
2 13 (10.32%) Azure
3 12 (9.52%) Figma
4 7 (5.56%) GCP
5 6 (4.76%) Azure DevOps
6 5 (3.97%) Azure Data Factory
6 5 (3.97%) Cloud Computing
7 4 (3.17%) AWS
7 4 (3.17%) Snowflake
8 3 (2.38%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 3 (2.38%) Microsoft 365
9 2 (1.59%) Collibra
9 2 (1.59%) PowerApps
10 1 (0.79%) IaaS
10 1 (0.79%) PaaS
10 1 (0.79%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.79%) Cisco Firepower
1 1 (0.79%) Modbus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (20.63%) Data Warehouse
2 15 (11.90%) Power BI
3 13 (10.32%) SQL Server
4 12 (9.52%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 10 (7.94%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 8 (6.35%) SQL Server Analysis Services
7 6 (4.76%) OLAP
8 5 (3.97%) NoSQL
9 4 (3.17%) Data Lake
9 4 (3.17%) Metadata
10 3 (2.38%) Delta Lake
10 3 (2.38%) Hadoop
10 3 (2.38%) Tableau
11 2 (1.59%) Big Data
11 2 (1.59%) Relational Database
12 1 (0.79%) Ataccama
12 1 (0.79%) Geospatial Data
12 1 (0.79%) MongoDB
12 1 (0.79%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 34 (26.98%) JIRA
2 10 (7.94%) Git
General
1 62 (49.21%) Finance
2 37 (29.37%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 35 (27.78%) Social Skills
4 33 (26.19%) Law
5 29 (23.02%) Marketing
6 20 (15.87%) Legal
7 19 (15.08%) Banking
8 15 (11.90%) Analytical Skills
9 10 (7.94%) Manufacturing
10 6 (4.76%) Telecoms
11 4 (3.17%) Pharmaceutical
11 4 (3.17%) Presentation Skills
12 1 (0.79%) Organisational Skills
12 1 (0.79%) Private Banking
12 1 (0.79%) Public Sector
12 1 (0.79%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 23 (18.25%) Senior
2 21 (16.67%) Analyst
2 21 (16.67%) Lead
3 14 (11.11%) Database Engineer
4 12 (9.52%) Data Engineer
5 10 (7.94%) Business Analyst
5 10 (7.94%) Data Manager
5 10 (7.94%) Software Engineer
6 9 (7.14%) Senior Software Engineer
7 7 (5.56%) Market Risk Analyst
7 7 (5.56%) Market Risk Business Analyst
7 7 (5.56%) Risk Analyst
7 7 (5.56%) Risk Business Analyst
8 6 (4.76%) Architect
8 6 (4.76%) Principal Data Engineer
8 6 (4.76%) Principal Engineer
8 6 (4.76%) Senior Analyst
9 5 (3.97%) Data Architect
9 5 (3.97%) Senior Manager
10 4 (3.17%) Coordinator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (2.38%) Kafka
1 3 (2.38%) Middleware
2 1 (0.79%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 21 (16.67%) Management Information System
2 16 (12.70%) Product Ownership
3 14 (11.11%) Algorithms
4 13 (10.32%) Legacy Systems
5 8 (6.35%) Virtual Team
6 7 (5.56%) Market Risk
7 5 (3.97%) Data Structures
7 5 (3.97%) Distributed Computing
8 4 (3.17%) Life Science
8 4 (3.17%) Onboarding
8 4 (3.17%) Renewable Energy
9 3 (2.38%) Low-Code
10 1 (0.79%) Data Centre
10 1 (0.79%) Hybrid Cloud
10 1 (0.79%) Industrial Internet of Things
10 1 (0.79%) IoT
10 1 (0.79%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.79%) Linux
1 1 (0.79%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 42 (33.33%) Agile
2 37 (29.37%) Analytics
3 35 (27.78%) Data Governance
4 25 (19.84%) Coaching
5 24 (19.05%) Mentoring
6 22 (17.46%) Business Intelligence
6 22 (17.46%) Migration
6 22 (17.46%) Process Improvement
7 21 (16.67%) Computer Science
7 21 (16.67%) Stakeholder Management
7 21 (16.67%) Visualisation
8 20 (15.87%) ETL
8 20 (15.87%) Roadmaps
8 20 (15.87%) Strategic Thinking
9 19 (15.08%) DevOps
10 17 (13.49%) Project Planning
10 17 (13.49%) Software Engineering
11 16 (12.70%) Data Modelling
11 16 (12.70%) Data Protection
12 15 (11.90%) ERP
Programming Languages
1 23 (18.25%) SQL
2 13 (10.32%) C
3 12 (9.52%) T-SQL
4 8 (6.35%) C#
4 8 (6.35%) Java
5 6 (4.76%) C++
6 5 (3.97%) Go
6 5 (3.97%) Rust
6 5 (3.97%) VBA
7 3 (2.38%) Python
8 1 (0.79%) Kotlin
8 1 (0.79%) PL/SQL
8 1 (0.79%) R
8 1 (0.79%) Scala
Qualifications
1 40 (31.75%) Degree
2 9 (7.14%) Computer Science Degree
3 6 (4.76%) Master's Degree
4 5 (3.97%) PhD
5 3 (2.38%) OCP
5 3 (2.38%) Oracle Certification
5 3 (2.38%) PMI Certification
5 3 (2.38%) PMP
6 1 (0.79%) CBAP
6 1 (0.79%) MRICS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (15.08%) GDPR
2 16 (12.70%) Data Quality
3 5 (3.97%) QA
4 1 (0.79%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (0.79%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (0.79%) Ansible
Vendors
1 27 (21.43%) Microsoft
2 13 (10.32%) ServiceNow
3 9 (7.14%) Databricks
4 3 (2.38%) Oracle
5 2 (1.59%) Informatica
6 1 (0.79%) Barracuda Networks
6 1 (0.79%) Cisco
6 1 (0.79%) EMC
6 1 (0.79%) Nintex
6 1 (0.79%) Teradata
6 1 (0.79%) VMware